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Writing for Finance Digest, BNY Mellon’s Monika Aminiova, EMEA Cash Management Business Development Manager, Treasury Services, takes an in-depth look at how the payments sector could be transformed by SWIFT gpi, and how banks can help the initiative take root. Although still being rolled out, SWIFT gpi’s impact on both the speed and transparency of …

During Sibos, banking’s largest annual conference, BNY Mellon’s Fred DiCocco, Global Head of Cash Management Business Development, Treasury Services, tells Sibos Online that banks can deliver an enhanced payments experience to clients and harness the power of new technology through collaboration. Although fintech innovation brings immense opportunity to transform the payments space, technology alone is …

Recent years have heralded a new, dynamic “fintech era”. Global investment in fintech has skyrocketed in recent years, yet, the vast majority of fintech investment originates from other regions, with the Middle East only accountable for 0.1% of the global total in 2016. However, fintech companies are increasingly looking at how new innovations can improve …

Global fintech investment is soaring, nearly doubling to US$23.3 billion in 2016, from US$12 billion in 2014. Yet, the Middle East currently lays claim to just 0.1 per cent of this. Nevertheless, fuelled by the growing influence of a millennial population and rising expectations for efficiency, transparency and accessibility, fintech initiatives are rapidly gaining purchase …

In spite of recent challenges to growth, Asian trade has remained resilient (with ASEAN exports, for example, growing 12% from 2013 to 2016 to reach US$875 billion). Yet, where world trade once grew at twice the rate of GDP, the WTO’s forecast for world trade growth in 2016 was a rate of just 1.7% – …

The exponential growth of fintech innovation in recent years has brought remarkable upgrades to Latin America’s financial services – most notably in the efficiency and ease of retail and domestic payments. But, despite this impressive progress, there is still a great deal to do when it comes to modernizing global transactions. Furthermore, owing to …

Trade in Asia is facing a changing global landscape and considerable challenges, with structural economic change taking place in the region itself, coupled with growing protectionism in the west. Despite this, Asia has experienced above average global trade growth in recent years and continues to do so, with the trade outlook for the region particularly …